Featuring the work of accomplished students graduating from Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture undergraduate and graduate programs. The work will display the diversity and quality of all of the school’s programs from progressive design and advanced technology to sustainability and urbanism.

“How does the physical and sensory richness of the city shape who we are—for worse or for better?

To launch Van Alen Institute’s Spring 2014 Events, the Institute and ISSUE Project Room present a fast-paced medley of music, poetry, personal reflections, conversations, and performances by designers, artists, musicians, writers, social scientists, and others exploring the meaning of well-being, and the effects of the city on our minds and bodies.

Doors at 7:00 pm. The celebration continues with drinks following the program.”

For more information on the event and to purchase tickets, visit the ISSUE Project room website.

BIOGRAPHY

Vito Acconci has earned his international recognition. Acconci has been a vital presence in contemporary art since the late 1960s; his confrontational and ultimately political works have evolved from writing through conceptual art, bodyworks, performance, film, video, multimedia installation and architectural sculpture. Since the late 1980s he has focused on architecture and design projects.

Meredith TenHoor teaches architectural history and theory and coordinates the history-theory curriculum at Pratt Institute. Her research examines how architecture, urbanism and landscape design participate in the distribution of resources, and in recent years has been focused on how architects use food as a means to rethink the media and politics of practice.

Directly following final reviews, the School of Architecture will celebrate with its annual BBQ Party, this Saturday, May 3rd beginning at 6pm. All students and faculty from the School of Architecture’s programs are invited to attend and congratulate themselves and each other for work well done, and to receive their copy of the newly arrived InProcess 19.

External Examiners that have been invited by the GAUD department to take part in various reviews. We encourage you to take advantage of having these esteemed colleagues in the field of Architecture available for discussion and critique.

THURS 05.01.2014

José Oubrerie the last living protégé of Le Corbusier, is a Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Knowlton School. Oubrerie joined the School as Chair of the Architecture Department in 1994 after his tenure as Dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. After an early career in painting, Oubrerie studied architecture in Paris and went on to work in Le Corbusier’s office from 1957–1965. He collaborated with his mentor during the final years of his life, working on numerous projects such as the Brazil Pavilion, Hotel d’Orsay, the Strasbourg Convention Center, the Olivetti Offices and Factories in Milan, the Venice Hospital, the Zurichhorn Pavillion, and the Firminy Church. In 1970, Oubrerie became a registered architect and started his own office in Paris with several commissions: to establish the final project for the Firminy Church; to rebuild the Esprit Nouveau Pavilion in Bologna in collaboration with Giuliano Gresleri; to build a Computer and Research Center in Fontainebleau for the École des Mines de Paris; and to realize the French Cultural Center in Damascus, Syria. Later, while teaching in Lexington, Kentucky, he created with his wife Atelier Wylde-Oubrerie, to build the Miller House.Oubrerie’s work has received numerous awards and has been published internationally. He has also taught in the Architecture School of Beaux-arts in Paris, The Cooper Union, Columbia GSAPP, CCNY School of Architecture, and Cornell University. Oubrerie recently released the book Architecture With and Without Le Corbusier, featuring the Miller House and the Firminy Church, which was completed by Oubrerie in 1996, and was listed by the 2010 World Architecture Survey as the second most important structure built in the 21st century. http://knowlton.osu.edu/people/oubrerie

FRI 05.01.2014

Mark Goulthorpe an Associate Professor at MIT Dept of Architecture, teaching in undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs, and undergoing research in digital design and fabrication. He is currently Head of the new Design Stream in the SMArchS program. Current research centers on robotic fabrication and a variety of composite fabrication methodologies, as well as a new iteration of the dynamically reconfigurable HypoSurface. In particular, the Zero+ housing targets a ubiquitous new building technology that looks to bring a radical new methodology into second world markets where global housing needs are extremely pressing. Goulthorpe is also a practicing architect, acting as creative and technical director of 3 groups of networked inter-disciplinary teams: dECOi Architects, HypoSurface, and Zero+. Current projects include a fully cnc-milled wooden office interior, One Main (Cambridge) evidencing a radical carbon-negative manufacturing potential (with designer, Raphael Crespin); a new electromagnetic HypoSurface commission for the National Museum of Energy in Spain (NME) establishing real-time physical interactivity of architectural surfaces (with digital artist, Marc Downie and digital composer, Paul Steenhuisen); the Paramorph carbon-fiber penthouse as an extension to a towertop adjacent to Tate Modern (London) with parametric modeling by Kaustuv de Biswas, PhD; and a research initiative with IDC (Singapore) for Zero+ thermoplastic housing (with composites engineer, Mark Bishop, CAD/CAM by Stelios Dritsas at IDC, FEA by Sawako Kaijima at IDC, environmental design by Vasco Portugal, PhD, and LCA by Prof Mike Lepech at Stanford). http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/mark-goulthorpe

Hani Rashid received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Carleton University (Canada) in 1983 and in 1985 received a Master of Architecture degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Rashid’s academic career includes visiting professorships at several universities, including the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Lund University. Since 1989, Rashid has been an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York, where he launched the “Advanced Digital Design” (1992) and the “Digital Design Initiative” (1995). In 2004, he received a professorship at the Cátedra Luis Barragán in Monterrey, Mexico and from 2006 to 2009 he was a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 2008, Rashid was the recipient of the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor Chair at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He was also a member of the jury for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. From 2009 to 2011 he was a guest professor at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. In 2000 Rashid represented the U.S. at the Seventh International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. In 2004, Asymptote Architecture was selected as the design architects of Metamorph, the Ninth Venice Architecture Biennale. Asymptote Architecture was awarded the prestigious Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts in recognition of exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of art and architecture. http://www.asymptote.net/

MON 05.05.2014

Robert Livesey is a professor of architecture at the Knowlton School. In 1983, Livesey came to Ohio State to become Chair of the Department of Architecture, a role he held until 1991. From 1997 to 2005, he served as the Director of the Knowlton School. Livesey served as interim head of the Landscape Architecture Section from 2011 to 2013. Currently, he is head of the architecture Section. Livesey has won numerous teaching awards including the Judith Capen Teaching Award at Yale University, and the AIA Ohio Teaching Award. In 2012, Livesey was inducted as an honorary member of Class 106 of the SPHINX Senior Class Honorary, an Ohio State student organization that, each year, inducts honorary members into the organization because of their unparalleled impact on and service to the University.Livesey has won numerous design awards including a Citation from Progressive Architecture for Maison Truc, an AIA Columbus Award for Harold Nestor Hall, and the AIA Ohio 2010 Gold Medal Award, the highest honor that AIA Ohio can bestow on an individual, conferred in recognition of exemplary efforts and significant accomplishments. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the American Academy in Rome. Livesey received an AB in Architecture from Princeton University, and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. He was also awarded the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard and won the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome. Livesey worked for I.M. Pei and Partners, and James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates. http://knowlton.osu.edu/people/livesey

Thom Mayne received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1968 and his Master of Architecture from Harvard University in 1978. He was a founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and has held teaching positions at Columbia University, Harvard University (Elliot Noyes Chair, 1998), Yale University (Eliel Saarinen Chair, 1991), the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Currently, he holds a tenured faculty position at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. His distinguished honors include Pritzker Prize Laureate (2005), Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Design in Rome (1987), the Alumni of the Year Award from USC (1992), Member Elect from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1992), and the 2000 American Institute of Architects / Los Angeles Gold Medal in Architecture. With Morphosis, Thom Mayne has been the recipient of 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, 57 AIA Awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under his direction, the firm has been the subject of extensive publications and exhibitions throughout the world. http://www.morphosis.com/

The Arichitectural League announced its winners for its 2014 prize which included Young & Ayata’s Villa Al-Mezhar in Sharjah, UAE, a contemporary building that represents the provocation to the progression in form, material, and technology. Kutan Ayata and Michael Young, the co-founders of Young & Ayata, will discuss their work on June 26, 2014, in a public lecture.

The Architectural League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers. The Prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas. Each year, The Architectural League and the Young Architects + Designers Committee organize a portfolio competition. Six winners are then invited to present their work in a variety of public fora, including lectures, an exhibition, a catalogue published by Princeton Architectural Press (forthcoming, Spring 2015), and on the League’s website.

For full information about the program and this year’s winners, click here.

A reception with the opportunity to view the exhibition will follow the lecture.

YOUNG & AYATA

Young & Ayata, a New York based practice, was formed by Kutan Ayata and Michael Young to explore novel formal and organizational possibilities in architecture and urbanism. The practice is dedicated to both built commissions and experimental research. We view the reality of contemporary building as a provocation to the progression of experiments in form, material and technology. In following these contemporary trajectories it is necessary to understand architecture in its historical processes, beyond the specifics of built construction, towards an engagement with cultural issues that influence and are influenced by our environment.

Both principles teach and view the educational experience as crucial to the continual development of architectural ideas. Young & Ayata additionally pursue architectural research in a wide range of issues, including geometry, tectonics, and urbanism. The desire of the practice is to investigate architecture as the production of intensified sensations on several levels: materially, formally, programmatically, ecologically and culturally.

‘Sky High’, a trampoline park designed by Atelier Architecture 64, has been featured in Honest Buildings. Honest Buildings is a software platform focused on buildings. It brings together building service providers, occupants, owners, and other stakeholders onto a single portal to exchange information, offerings, and needs. It provides a voice for everyone who occupies buildings, works with buildings, and owns buildings globally to comment, display projects, and solicit business with the macro goal of creating a more sustainable environment.

Atelier Architecture 64 is a Brooklyn-based architecture firm, co-founded by Stephanie Bayard and Phillip Anzalone. It specializes in integrating established and advanced materials and processes; a collaboration between traditional craft and advanced technology. They focus on how new materials and technology can enable architectural design through innovative practice, while critically examining the contemporary and traditional means of production.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal
May 21, 2013
CCA Website

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Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. Curated by Greg Lynn, this initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve architectural ambitions that anticipate the technology before it was available or used. Many of the approaches persist in this second exhibition, including the experimentation in formal, spatial and material language, procedural or parametric processes, and robotic motion. However, in this second exhibition the architects have a deeper engagement with the digital in each project.

The exhibition brings together Asymptote’s New York Stock Exchange Virtual Trading Floor and Operation Center, Karl Chu’s Catastrophe Machine and X Phylum, the Objectile Panels by Bernard Cache, Hyposurface by dECOi Architects, Muscle NSA by ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd], and NOX’s H2Oexpo. The breadth of creative scope among these projects extends from the design of buildings to the design of interactive media, interactive robotic mechanisms, drafting machines based on the Catastrophe theory, generative algorithms, and the writing of disciplinary and cultural theories.

John Szot, an undergraduate visiting assistant professor, has been interviewed by Archinet to discuss the upcoming release of the last chapter of his film series: “Architecture and the Unspeakable.” The film series explores different symptom of architecture’s vulnerabilities and features architectural proposals by John Szot Studio.

To access the interview, visit the Archinect website.
For more information on “Architecture and the Unspeakable”, visit John Szot Studio website.

BIOGRAPHY

John Szot is an award-winning architect and cinematographer working out of New York City. His architecture practice – John Szot Studio – is a sole-proprietorship focused on the relationship between technology and the locus of meaning in the built environment. He is also a founding partner of the Brooklyn Digital Foundry, a visualization studio that has met with international acclaim. His drawings, videos, and architectural proposals have been exhibited worldwide.

Michael Szivos principal from SoftLab with assistance from intern Nitzan Bartov worked with a group of students to produce Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture & Urban Design exhibition of student work in the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery. Each year the course attempts to produce an installation that explores digital fabrication methods as while showcasing the previous year’s student work. The opening of the exhibition coincides with InProcess, the annual publication of student work. The curatorial component of the exhibition is meant to contrast the more traditional way of indexing the work through InProcess

1:00pm – Hazel and Robert Siegel Gallery – Accepted students will have the opportunity to meet students and faculty, view the new GAUD Student Exhibition (opening to be held later that evening), and enjoy light refreshments

CSI Communications/Community/Web Director Joy Davis, CSI, CCPR, has been described as the “publisher” of CSI’s national web presence, the “voice of CSI” found in CSI e-publications, and the “ringleader” of CSI’s social media community. Davis helped develop and now manages the contents and day-to-day operation of CSI’s website. She also trains and supports leaders in the 65+ chapters that use CSI’s microsite system. Davis has grown CSI’s web community on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and in the blogosphere, where she works closely with CSI members to spread CSI’s message. She also uses platforms such as Flickr and Slideshare to distribute CSI’s content. She has presented her “Social Media for Construction Professionals” program to chapters, architectural firms, and manufacturers, both in-person and by webinar. Davis frequently counsels CSI chapter and region leaders on marketing and web-based communications, including as how to build a website, convert a PDF newsletter to an e-newsletter, start a blog, or use social media to grow CSI. As a CSI Certified Construction Product Representative, Davis teaches “Trusted Advisor: The Role of Product Representatives in Construction,” with a focus on social media and websites as tools representatives must know how to use. Davis is a member of CSI’s Albuquerque Chapter. Davis was a newspaper reporter and editor before joining CSI’s staff in 2002.

‘Meta-HOM’ Residence, designed by KOL/MAC is exhibited at The Permanent Gallery (Galerie permanente) in the ‘Home’ section currently at FRAC. Other participants include Toyo Ito, Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, BIOTHING, Coop Himmelb(l)au, and Diller + Scofidio.

‘META-HOM’ RESIDENCE

‘Meta-HOM’ Residence is located in West Virginia near Charlottesville, on a superb site of 200 hectares in hilly landscape. The house belongs to Meta_HOM Estouteville Beatrix Ost and Ludwig Kuttner , also sponsors of the New York apartment designed by KOL/MAC . The site is also the location of the historic neoclassical Monticello house, built between 1769 and 1809 by Thomas Jefferson. Taking into account these characteristics, KOL/MAC defines “co-citation maps ” from various combinations of hollow columns mixed with various programmatic and contextual factors. The “meta- house” is then organized into a freestanding asymmetrical monocoque structure with “meta- packages” (micro-HOMzones) are equipped with their own identity, both programmatic and morphological . Due to its elastic and almost liquid appearance, the house flows into its environment. It offers a kind of continuous and flexible envelope that extends into the interior spaces, providing a perfect surface continuity between the outside and the inside.

KOL/MAC

KOL/MAC was founded in 1988 by Sulan Kolatan and William Mac Donald. Both are graduates of Columbia University in New York where they have been teaching architecture for more than ten years. The firm’s current work is focused on linking unique digital design methods to new methods of construction, new technologies of production and a new generation of materials. Recent projects include the competition for the redevelopment of the Carlsberg brewery site in Copenhagen, Denmark, the competition for the FRAC Museum for Contemporary Art and Architecture in Orléans, France and the design and development of a high-performance ecological skin for highrise buildings sponsored by DuPont Corian.

THE FRAC CENTRE

The FRAC Centre (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) is a public collection of contemporary art located in Orléans, France. In 1991, the FRAC Centre opted for an atypical collection which decided to bring contemporary art together with experimental architecture, from the 1950s to the present day. With its international dimension, its collection includes seminal projects of the architectural avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s, known by the umbrella term “radical architecture”.

Today, the FRAC Centre collection includes some 600 works, 800 architectural models and maquettes, and more than 15,000 drawings, as well as many architects’ collections. It is represented through 150 architects and 170 artists. This collection forms a unique heritage of experimental architecture of the last fifty years linked with artistic creation, rivalling the world’s greatest architectural collections (Centre Pompidou-MNAM in Paris; MoMA in New York; CCA in Montreal; DAM, Architectural Museum, in Frankfurt).

Aimed at current bachelor’s degree students, recent graduates and professionals looking for a specialisation, this guide provides an in-depth overview of almost 30 of the world’s leading graduate schools that offer a master’s degree in architecture.

The featured schools are selected based on a list of criteria including the quality of the graduation work, the employability and success of former students, the list of lecturers, and their reputation in the realm of architecture. Each school is featured extensively on 10 pages containing useful information, such as programme description, application details and requirements, student demographics, mentor and alumni lists, tuition and scholarship details, and full contact details. The articles give a real insight into life at each of the schools and in the global locations – each school profile opens with an introduction by the programme leader, followed by examples of recent student work, an interview with a successful alumnus, information about the school’s location regarding housing, transportation and the cultural scene from a student’s perspective, and more.

A world map indicating the demographic spread of included schools, a summary table and a notebook section with space for research notes, complete this guide to help potential students choose the school that will suit them best.

FEATURES

The guidebook focuses on the leading graduate schools from across the world

Attractive graphic design with a lot of attention for clarity and easy comparability of the different schools

Small trim size and light weight allows students to easily pick up the book at events, shops and schools

A practical table helps to compare the schools featured in the book

A notebook section is included for the reader to write down his/her own research

For more information on Masterclass: Architecture, visit their website.

Gia Wolff is an architectural designer based in Brooklyn, New York, and the 2013 recipient of the inaugural Wheelwright Prize from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She teaches architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, where she is an adjunct assistant professor, and at the Pratt Institute, where she is a visiting assistant professor.

Wolff’s design work has always been compelled by the workings of performance and its use of space and objects to convey narrative, form, and emotion. She is interested in architecture that embodies a reciprocal relationship between the user and the built environment and questions the performative aspects of the discipline. Her work isn’t about rational functionalism, and static objects are just too removed from the sharpness of situations. Instead, her work requires users to actively question how they relate both in time and scale.

Wolff received a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2008 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2001. She has worked at the architecture practices of Acconci Studio, Adjaye Associates, and LOT-EK and also continues her four-year long relationship as an architectural collaborator with the immensely talented Phantom Limb Company (New York City), known for its work with marionette-puppetry and focus on collaborative, multi-media theatrical production and design.

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Recently, along with architects from Freecell, Wolff designed a feline playground for The Cat Show, a celebration of cats with cat-related work by more than 50 artists, curated by Rhonda Lieberman and called “Highbrow Brilliant” by New York magazine. Their installation, Tubes Over Tubes Under Tubes, was the centerpiece of an exhibition at White Columns Gallery in New York City, where adoptable cats ran amok in the hopes of finding permanent homes. Wolff’s upcoming designs include installations at the Tate Modern in Britain. In August 2014, the Tate Modern will bring carnival into the indoor street that is Turbine Hall as part of the BMW Tate Live series. Up Hill Down Hall: A Carnival was conceived by Claire Tancons in discussion with Tate Modern’s curatorial team and in collaboration with the artists in the project including Marion Griffith and Hew Locke, along with the Notting Hill Carnival community and Wolff as architectural designer.

In 2013, Wolff received the Wheelwright Prize for her proposal, “Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats.” The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant awarded annually by the Harvard Graduate School of Design to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent, produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and who show promise for continued creative work. Wolff’s research as a Wheelwright Fellow will focus on some of the world’s largest parade floats, centering on floats at the Carnaval in Rio, Brazil. She will also look at parades and carnivals in Goa, India; Nice, France; Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; and Viareggio, Italy as comparisons.

Her lecture, “Floating Cities: Community Based Architecture of Parade Floats,” is part of this research, and her presentation will focus on the process and development of the project. The focus will be on the parade float as a locus for a community, the social and technical aspects of float creation, and the interplay between the city street and the moving float. For more information on the research, visit the Floating City blog. Wolff’s lecture will appeal to students studying architecture, art, and interior design, as well as anyone interested in any of her various creative architectural design projects.

LSU School of Architecture students develop a solid foundation of traditional design, hand building, and drawing skills and learn to use computer and technological resources. The architecture program at LSU provides a balance between broadening educational experiences and discipline-focused coursework. In addition to learning how to make buildings, students develop a sense of professionalism and leadership in shaping the world by learning how to see, think, and act creatively. For more information, visit architecture.lsu.edu.

Award-winning architect John Szot, founder of John Szot Studio and Brooklyn Digital Foundry, will lecture on Tuesday, April 8, as part of our 2014 Spring Talks series.

The Brooklyn Digital Foundry was established in 1999 to serve the architectural community with digital communications support. Since then, the studio has grown to serve a global client base in various industries with visualization and marketing materials.

In his talk, John will discuss his project Architecture and the Unspeakable, a video in three parts presenting three speculative design proposals, each probing a pathological aspect of the built environment. During this event, John will premiere the third and last part of the project. To see the second part of the project, please visit his contribution to the Aberration issue.

The event will be hosted by The Logan Share, a co-working space in Logan Square run by George and Sarah Aye from the Greater Good Studio. Housed in a former furniture warehouse, this building benefits from 3,500 sq ft of lofted workspace, with white washed floors and ceiling, 45′ of north facing windows and 14′ ceilings. For more information about The Logan Share, please visit their website.

At the intersections of Architecture, Art, Geography, and Women’s Studies, Lori Brown’s work emerges from the belief that architecture can participate in and impact people’s everyday lives. Her design, speculative work, and teaching all engage with the larger idea of broadening the discourse and involvement of architecture in our world. Focusing particularly on the relationships between architecture and social justice issues, she has currently placed emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships. She has recently been working on a retro-fitted bus providing medical care and educational outreach for rural areas in upstate New York and a recently completed renovation for the Vera House, a local women’s shelter in Syracuse, NY. Two current projects include the book Contested Space: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals investigating how legislation affects politicized and securitized spaces published in June 2013 by Ashgate and a competition design for Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Jackson, MS that will be taking place in 2014. In addition, she curated, organized and participated in Feminist Practices, an international group of women designers and architects whose work engages feminist methodologies which was published as an edited book, Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture by Ashgate in December 2011.

In 2008 she was awarded the American Institute of Architects Diversity Best Practice Honorable Mention and a commendation for the Milka Bliznakov Prize for the Feminist Practices exhibition 2008. In 2012, she co-launched with Nina Freedman, ArchiteXX, a women and architecture group in New York City. This group seeks to raise the awareness of women in architecture, create support and mentoring networks and take design actions broadening the exposure of architecture out in the world. Brown received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology where she spent her final year studying at the Ecole d’Architecture in Paris. Following, she received a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. Prior to teaching, Brown was working as an architect in New York City for several award-winning firms. She is a registered architect in the state of New York, a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Association of University.

Please remember to bring your Pratt I.D. to gain admittance into the auditorium.

BIOGRAPHY

Since LOHA’s inception in 1990, founder and principal Lorcan O’Herlihy has sought opportunities to engage the ever changing complexities of the urban landscape embracing the role of architecture as a catalyst of change.

In 2004, the Architectural League of New York selected Lorcan O’Herlihy as one of the eight “emerging voices” in the United States. In 2009, Lorcan was elevated to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

Lorcan’s professional practice has always been coupled with academic and intellectual pursuits. He has taught and lectured extensively over the last decade, including at the Architectural Association in London, Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc], Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, Columbia University, University of Southern California, and the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Previously, Lorcan worked at I.M. Pei and Partners on the celebrated Grande Louvre Museum in Paris and as an Associate at Steven Holl Architects on projects in both New York and Europe.